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I am an old-fashioned American citizen who believes in our traditional values of freedom, truth, and justice. When I see our laws and government subverted and twisted into service of the undemocratic, powerful, corporate oligarchy, I must react with a patriotic defense of our values. I strongly oppose the ongoing destruction of what is left of American democracy and shall give voice to our common cause of freedom.
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Monday, July 16, 2018

All The Answers

It's always a delight to see how Trump's loyal
Republicans, conservatives, and far Right Cult have ALL the answers, isn't it? The smarter Republicans and traditional conservatives are realizing their party has become a cult. Our country needs more of them. And we need them more than ever.

"We're
in a strange place. It's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it?" the
Tennessee Republican told reporters. "It's not a good place for any party
to have a cult-like situation as it relates to a President that happens to be
purportedly of the same party."- Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob
Corker

That cultish thing is now the Trump Cult. The Cult of Right-wing Authoritarian Personalities has been around and in power for decades. And his base has been waiting for him for a long time, since the Civil War even.

They
don't need no stinkin' education. They don't need no stinkin' journalism. They
don’t need no stinkin’ free press. They don't need no stinkin' science. And
they don’t need no stinkin’ arts.

They
got Hannity, Limbaugh and Doocey to do their thinking for them. They trust and
believe a pathological liar like Trump, and his Government Of Putin, as they
attack the FBI for investigating Russian interference in our election.

Then
they call liberals commies. Amazing, isn't it?

This
is because they also get to invent their own language, to unilaterally define
words.

“Death
taxes”, “death panels” and “Liberal media” exist only in their fevered
paranoia.They need to mistrust and
smear information sources that don’t regurgitate far Right talking points. This
is exactly how a cult operates.

This
Cult of Right-wing Authoritarian Personalities is a load of C.R.A.P. indeed.

Never
mind they don't know the difference between communism and democratic socialism.
They sure as hell don’t know what neo-liberalism is.

They
think Democrats today are the same party as a hundred and fifty years ago, when
conservative white racists started a war to keep their slaves.

They
think the Constitution is like the Bible, full of eternal truths, instead of an
amendable foundation of law, government, and civil rights. They believe that
Jesus sent Trump to save America from brown people, or some evil “others”. They
believe any crazy crap their authoritarian leaders tell them. If the party line
changes, so do their beliefs.

They
believed Trump when he said the Electoral College is unfair. Then they believed
Trump when he said the Electoral College IS fair. Hint: It’s NOT fair. It is
directly counter to the ideal of consent of the governed in the Declaration of
Independence. (Thank the slave states for that one, too.)

The
same is true of their rigged House gerrymandering, and the very Senate itself. Rural
white conservatives will always have the greater proportion of representation. Consent
of the governed is now a dead concept. These are the fatal flaws of our doomed
experiment as a democratic republic.

Now
the C.R.A.P. are so totalitarian, and so fascistic, as to believe our First
Amendment’s provision for a free press has spawned the “enemy of the people”.

Remember
when they howled about “state media”?What
happened to that? FOX has become their “Ministry of Truth”.

They
believe “very fine people” march with Nazis. They believe Trump is honest. They
are indoctrinated to believe in a system of rule by “divine Right of Wealth”.

They
believe oil corporations’ paid shills and PR over climate and environmental
science.

They
are indoctrinated to revere wealth and the wealthy to the degree they will
submit to corporations writing our laws, and polluters’ dictating environmental
policies, and Wall Street swindlers self-regulating their banks. They believe
people should serve the economy instead of an economy that serves the people. They
are often duped Christians, literally serving mammon. Capitalism is their
earthly god. They must believe in de-regulated capitalism, even when it fails.

And
there’s the key word. “Believe”. It’s all they have to do. Far Right
Authoritarian personalities are usually followers, sucking up the propaganda of
FOX, the National Enquirer and Alex Jones. This is the C.R.A.P. they cling to as tightly
as their religion.

Because
it IS a cult. It has attracted every American Nazi, white nationalist, and
militia nut.

No
wonder they hate journalism, science, and higher education. And it’s no wonder
they hate liberals and other informed people for questioning their state media,
and their incompetent and corrupt Party of Trump.

Chuck, I love it! "On Topic Bill"! That ought to be the name of the legislation the republicans in Congress propose in order to keep their imbecilic and treasonous president on the talking points and not veering off onto "Hillary hate" tirades and how he won the election fair-and-square. LOLOL

What an embarrassment!...and on the world stage, no less! What a supreme douche-bag.

Oh, your comment that I "couldn't read" was incorrect. What you should have addressed was your unacknowledgment that your questions were all answered.

I'm having a hard time deciding who's the bigger imbecile -- Donald Trump or you. I'll just have to figure out a satisfactory tie-breaker, I guess.

"The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives -- their very being -- are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is -- and should be -- dependent on the consent of the government." ~ Jacob Hornberger

Ed,Thanks for the hilarious Jacob Hornberger fantasy quote. Never heard of the guy.

He perverts "Consent of the governed", the liberal value of the founders.

Seems he’s the idiot sneering at those who “excoriate President Trump for trying to establish friendly relations with Russia, especially since it’s not the first time this has happened. It also happened to President Kennedy.”

Only in the fevered minds of the Trump Cult: “Same thing! Kennedy publicly sided with Khrushchev, over bi-partisan Senate committees, the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA and FBI.”

Putin's puppets are very busy distorting, deflecting and distracting from their leader's capitulation to his President Putin.